The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-03
Local md State Notes


The Ohio Falls car-works, at Jacksonville,
are building several hundred for the Chi
eago. Minneapolis q Omaha road
One who is DESTROYS to invest in Bee-line
stocks at 81. says he has made diligent inquiry
or some at that figure, and finds none for sale.
Blue-river Park, on the c., II. g. l., was
opened to picnics July 1. and during the
month their trains took 4,797 picnickers to the
grounds.
Itw decided Yesterday not to consolidate the
ticket Offices Of the Beeline and Cincinnati.
Wabash & Michigan roads, on South Illinois
street. until Sept i.
number of men in the employ of l., D. & S.
road have retired from the ser of the COM
pany for the reason that their pay was not ad-
vanced to the figures they demanded.
J. B. Barnes, superintendent of motive power
Of the Wabash, is off a three weeks pleasure
trip. While absent, he will visit several of the
leading locomotive works of the East.
One of the heavy freight engines that the G.,
II. e. ID. received last week was placed in serv-
ice yesterday, on the Indianapolis division, and
performed its work very satisfactorily.
On Monday morning express train No. on
the L.. N. A. q @. road from New Provi-
dence to the city line of New Albany in sixteen
minutes. The distance is eighteen miles.
In the month of July tho baggage men at the
Union Depot handled 81 764 pieces of baggage
OF this number IL. $40 were checked from
Indianapolis proper against 1O.94S in July,
1886.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the up
town Office of the c.. l.. St l.. 81 O. road last
month reached So, 964 Go. These were the lare-
est receipts ever taken at this Office in any one
month.
One of the officials of the Illinois Central road
states that, without doubt, this company will
extend their southern line to Memphis via
Raleigh and Brownsville leaving the main line
at Jackson.
The August number of the Firemen's Maya
zine is out and is unusually interesting num-
Der. Among other things is well written
tcie on the qualifications necessary for success
full railroading.
II. " Hoffman, telegraph operator in tho
freight office of III. g. Stiles. agent of the c., H.
& l., has been promoted to be q rain-dispatcher
under the three tricks" service which has been
adopted by the c., IL. d ID.
NJ. Sinclair was yesterday appointed agent of
the Vandaa at Fillmore, and J. Shuyme, agent
of the same road at Greencastle. T. S. Kern,
agent of the Vandalia at Logansport. has re-
signed and is succeeded by Clinton Hutchinson,
of Greencastle
Col Horace Scott, who has contracted to COM
plete the Cannelton branch of the L., E. & st.
L. road to Lincoln, twenty four miles, by Dec.
l. has a large force of men and teams at work,
regardless of the extreme heat. Rails for the
track will begin to arrive next week
General superintendent Woodland. of the L..
N A & c. road, was in the city yesterday look
ing over matters He is still urging the higher
officials to take steps to secure terminal facilities
sf their own at indianapolis and be oependent
other road to reach the Union tracks
The Pennsylvania road on Sunday moved the
big bridge at Summerhill to the one side to en-
able them to put stone arches In its place This
is the third large bridge which has been moved
In this manner, although the others were not so
difficult feat of engineering as the Summerhill
bridge
The section men on most of the indianapolis
roads now kept busy putting ont Tres which
catch from sparks and burn up fences, and in
some cases, fields of wheat. Unless there is rain
Joon. the running of trains will become almost
impossible without setting fire to fields and de-
stroying property.
Travelling freight agents are not talking SO
cheerily over the big traffic that August is to
bring. The prospect that the crop is to
De failure has created the belief that oats and
wheat must advance, and every farmer and
dealer wnols In shape financially TO admit of
noiolnc MS gram shows disposition to do so.
This Is largely checking shipments
L. A. Ford and his assistant general passenger
agents have all returned from their Eastern
pleasure trip, and are better prepared for duty
than ever. On reaching Philadelphia the party
was taken in charge by Geo. W. BOYD the assist
ant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines east of Pittsburg. and several days were
passed very pleasantly visiting the numerous
pleasure resorts on their lines.
Next week the j.. NJ. g. /. "sY," which con-
meets the road with the Union tracks, will be
abandoned for some weeks to admit OF making
the improvements to Pogues run, now in prog
ress, which is to admit of having more tracks
After next week all freehts for months to come
will be shut off the Union tracks as far posi-
Die. tie Eastern roads using the Belt-road to
reach the West Side, and vice versa.
Communication tickets, over which such a
test is pending, could be satisfactorily arranged
30 everybody by a very simple change in the
system. Communication ticket good for a
tain number OF round trips, no matter by whom
presented or at what time. would solve the prob
lem. Scalpers could not handle them to advan-
tage for the reason that all who travel on them
would have their own tickets.
A railroad attorney who has kept we'll posted
regarding the affairs of the Ives Staynor synd-
cate, and through whom of the roads they
gathered iE bought says that there has
been more frstclass lying done to the amount
Of money paid on the several properties now I'M